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Sota Sasaki (佐々木颯太)

3×3 · top 6.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2023 · 2023SASA02

Sota Sasaki (佐々木颯太) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.53, set at CubingUSA New England Championship 2025, puts him in the top 6.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 262nd in Japan. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since October 2023, he has put 253 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.85 in October 2023 to 9.53, a 31% improvement. Sota has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.2% of 284,439 all-time
9.53
signature single · CubingUSA New England Championship 2025
253
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×39.5311.11
top 6.2%262 / 3,329
2×22.613.56
top 10.0%139 / 1,021
Pyraminx5.398.44
top 15.7%180 / 688
4×448.7053.46
top 23.0%236 / 667
3×3 one-handed27.2931.36
top 40.1%313 / 529

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 13.85Loon Cubikon 2023: 11.52Rhode Island Winter 2024: 12.60Naticube 2024: 12.24Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 12.25Salem Cubikon 2024: 13.76CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 10.02QuabbiNxN Fall 2024: 10.14Loon Cubikon 2024: 10.82Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 10.14CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 9.53Loon Cubikon NH 2025: 11.619.5313.857 Oct 202316 Nov 2025

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

  • Ryan Durette — met in 49 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
  • Derek White — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Alex Cohen — met in 44 rounds, finished ahead 11 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.53 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.